Upcoming Events!

Two half-sisters. First meeting. Family secrets will be revealed. Family futures will be decided. No one will leave unscathed.

Our HOUSE TEAMS bring audiences the exhilarating, supportive and one of a kind experience of long form improvisation!

Join the That’s Our Show ensemble for a variety spectacular in the style of classics like The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show, and many others! We’ve got it all- singing, jokes, sketches, dancing, and a boat load of fun! Looking for an incredible night like no other? My friends, That’s Our Show!

Clarice formally invites you to an hour long revue of short-form comedic vignettes (colloquial, American: "sketches").

Welcome to the improvised documentary — a longform improv show filled with talking heads, found footage, re-enactments, and more!

Buckle up for an unhinged night of comedy! Featuring New York's wildest stand-ups and a cornucopia of characters from sketch duo Matt & Jack

PattiLuPone is on her farewell tour, and singing some of her favorite songs from her long and luscious career for the last time.* Come join for one final performance you won't want to miss.

Come see a team of skilled improvisers weave together an improvised movie in the style of the late great David Lynch.

Documentary format improv show

This sketch/stand-up variety spectacular finally answers the question, “why is being funny an attractive quality for men to have, but a threatening quality for women?” by giving the hottest and most threatening women in New York City the platform they deserve. No boys allowed, except in the audience where they belong <3

Waddle down to one of the funniest stand-up comedy showcases this side of the pond! 

Spike Andino and Austin Olson improvise a brand new musical on the spot!

Hosted by Professional Werewolf Warren Talbot, Terrorvision is a fully improvised horror film.

Real-life improviser parents and their children create magic and adorable mayhem on stage.

An improvised musical featuring old-timey bluegrass tunes and a rotating cast on traditional instruments like banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, washboard, egg shakers and kazoo…

A story of persistence, family, and crime, and hope, and persistence, and family.

"With Love," is a debut solo variety act that explores what it’s like to be the author of your own life’s work AKA your eulogy.

Sometimes we’re cute and clever, others we’re goofy and dumb, and still others we’re dark and nasty … but the FUNNY comes before all else!

Join us for an evening of laughter, tears, and song, right out of a Sondheim fever dream.

Are you tired of all of the noise out in the real world? Well come see a show where the improvisers are completely silent!

Kevin Scott and Dion Flynn bring their years of experience and skewed point of view to the PIT for a not-to-missed hour of hilarious improvisation. Kevin (Centralia, The Second City) and Dion (The Tonight Show) are a guaranteed good time.

Join LaLaHaHa for a night of music, laughter, and both at the same time! LaLaHaHa is a musical sketch group based in New York City.

Your Father and I would like to show you something. It is an expression of joy and of sorrow, of pleasure and pain, and, if you do it right, it takes about an hour.

Using audience suggestions of blunders, bummers, hiccups, slip-ups, etc., the No Duds explore the obvious downsides and secret silver linings of failures big and small.

The Sotto Voce & Friends show is an evening of story and song . We partner with public school music programs to increase awareness of the need for arts education in public schools. Opening for us is a musical ensemble of students from the NY public school system who will perform a short set. Then Sotto Voce presents an improvised musical that is completely sung through with no spoken dialogue!

Comedy scenes, songs and sketches from some of New York’s funniest up-and-coming comic actors and writers. 

An explosive, high energy hour of improvised dark comedy hosted by Hyperkinetic (est. 2023).

Papa Squat is a sketch show created by deeply special freaks with one goal: to make you laugh, baby. 

Come experience an improvised musical never heard of before! The Unheard Of cast brings the cutting edge of Broadway right to your front door. They experiment with new musical structures that will tickle the ear of any trained musical improvisor, and will knock the socks off of the first timer, so bring an extra pair, because when the venues are this intimate, every seat is in the metaphorical “splash zone”.

Do you have steamy hot tea to spill? Come dish at Hot Goss – an improv show inspired by your gossip. Vent about a coworker. Trash talk your ex. Tell us about your weird cousin. You spill, we do scenes. Everyone leaves a little lighter.

A musical improv comedic hour all about the trials, tribulations and delights of being a parent. A seasoned cast of improvisors who also happen to be parents of little humans will take suggestions from the audience and make up a musical anyone can relate to!

A BoogieManja Production to showcase new solo characters from some of the best writer-performers in NYC.

BadProv is the show that takes “bad improv”- the fumbles and mortified moments of our improv journey- and reinvents it into comedic fun!

Are you a life-long (live) Swiftie with a 13 drawn on your hand? Or are you someone dipping your toes in The Lakes of the 18 years worth of lore of today's biggest pop superstar? Either way, this show is for you! We will ̶i̶n̶i̶t̶i̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶c̶u̶l̶t̶ introduce you to the inside jokes of our fandom with educational segments leading into Taylor-themed sketches spanning topics from Jake Gyllenhaal's scarf to the Eras Tour.

See 4 teams battle it out for a spot in our March Madness Improv Tournament!

So come on out to our show and bring you troubles with you. We’ll be sure to give to the best BAD ADVICE you’ve ever had.

PIT instructors Jenny Bareilles and Patrick McCartney improvise together as a duo.  

Lapdog is the story of one woman's complicated decision to tell her new boyfriend a dirty little secret - and risk that when she does, he may never see her the same way again.

Ali and Matt will begin by talking to the audience to get the temperature of the room. Then they will do some improvisation from that conversation. Well over  a half a century of Improvisation between them.

Tom Waits takes his Ol’ 55 for a spin through 1998, to see what all the high school hullabaloo was about.

The audition of a lifetime is slipping through a wannabe actress's hands when the IRS discovers she's been moonlighting as a fake accountant. Written and performed by Katie Plott, The Worst Actress in LA explores the aching, humiliating phenomenon of trying your best with little to no success.

"One of the most impressive and absurd long-form improv routines in the city." - TimeOut NY

A comedy variety show hosted by two eccentric New Yorkers (played by Diana Aydin and Mikayla Sherfy), who secretly live in The PIT Annex.

"Join a cast of all star improvisers, comedians, and who knows what else for this night that is sure to be good old fashion fun."

Amid war, forced cannibalism, and exploitative cereal marketing schemes, Captain Crunch and his team of breakfast mascots have finally had enough. Having recently acquired a weapon of mass destruction (thanks to an inside source at Nestle), the mascots must decide how best to wield their newfound power. Will they come to a peaceful consensus or will the United States feel the wrath of their own breakfast?

The World’s FIRST: A.I. vs Human Comedy Roast Battle.

See 4 teams battle it out for a spot in our March Madness Improv Tournament!

Witness a team of improv comedians turn your audience suggestion into a full fledged musical with live accompaniment, original songs, characters, and dance numbers never before seen and never to be seen again.

See 4 teams battle it out for a spot in our March Madness Improv Tournament!

Expecteth the unexpected, for no two performances shall be the same. Verily, thou shalt be swept away on a journey of laughter and tears, as the players improvise their way through the labyrinthine tunnels of a story in the the style of William Shakespeare!

This is a Message for Ted, a solo performance, is a comedic coming of age memoir about Oona’s first cellphone and the strange calls that followed.

Join the PIT’s personal Shadow Cast for a different cult classic movie with every performance. With shows including Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Room, Heathers, and more - it’s one helluva good time!

Breaking the Internet LIVE! is a high-energy interactive, improvised game show hosted by Summer Moran!

Fifth Floor Walkup is a fever dream of hysterical weirdness. It's madcap, what-the heck-just-happened, screwball sketch comedy with a motley cast of PIT-trained performers. Playing in the liminal space between sketch and improv, Fifth Floor stitches together a brand new show every time with high-production sketches, original music, and digital shorts that'll leave you in stitches and maybe thinking a little differently about how you see the world!

“Two Much with Peter & Matt” is a half short form, half long form improvised show featuring Peter Bisgaier and Matt Pozzuolo

Red Flag(s) is not just another one-woman show. It's a comedic journey toward self-empowerment, resonating with anyone who has ever felt undervalued or pigeonholed. The play offers a hilarious and relatable exploration of modern dating, leaving audience members laughing, reflecting, and ultimately, cheering for the protagonist's strength and growth

See 4 teams battle it out for a spot in our March Madness Improv Tournament!

A New PIT Show where everything that happens from the moment people walk in, to the second standup performance, gets improvised upon by two brilliant teams Centralia’s style.

Cabin Fever is throwing together a shindig, and you're invited! Join us for a night with our hilarious friends as we regale you with some quality laughs and wholesome moments! Come sit around the campfire with us while we tell stories, make jokes, and come closer together. It's a night you won't want to miss! (S'more may or may not be offered as well)

See 4 teams battle it out for a spot in our March Madness Improv Tournament!

The Artist Formerly Known As: CRUD! is a mostly queer improv team. Formerly a house team at the PIT, they’ve performed at Baltimore Improv Festival and regularly spread their crud all over NYC. Follow @crud_improv for show details and more CRUD!

We'll ask an audience member about where they grew up: the oddball characters, the local haunts, the myths and legends. Then we'll make ourselves at home doing some good ol’ fashion long form improv!

Screaming Crying Throwing Up is a sketch show by fangirls for fangirls (and anyone who wants to dip their toe into fandom). Our sketches explore the brilliance and complexity of fangirls, along with our current obsessions. Everything from K-pop, to Disney, books, tv, movies, fanfic, and everything in between. Let’s get delulu! #SketchShow!AU   Featuring: Alyssa Briddes Cahlia Walton Becky Davidson Taylor Sniffen Helene Dubois Rhys Febles Scott Kidwell

Chimp Cocktail is composed of the most brilliant sketch comedy minds of the post-World War II, pre-World War III generation.

See 4 teams battle it out for a spot in our March Madness Improv Tournament!

The Beantown dirtbags have stolen yet another script and this time it’s Nora Ephron! Watch a this hilarious group of improvisers make up a movie on the spot in the style of the rom com queen.

See 4 teams battle it out for a spot in our March Madness Improv Tournament!

Two socially stunted college freshman attempt to comfort their friend in her time of need.

He's back in the saddle....

Febster is a sketch show that will make you laugh (hopefully) and cry (hopefully not... unless paired with laughter).

New York’s craziest characters take an improv class! A normal improv class takes a turn when some of the wildest characters from the NYC Comedy scene show up to take the class. This show takes the best characters from around the city and puts them in an improv class where they are taken through warm-ups, exercises, and scenes. Watch as the best characters from around the city try to learn things such as “Yes, And,” “Follow the fun,” and “No, don’t kill your scene partner at the start of every scene.”

See 4 teams battle it out for a spot in our March Madness Improv Tournament!

The Placeholders team with other indie teams and stand ups for an hour of laughs.

Sketch comedy that changes shape every show!

Yelling at Pigeons is a sketch comedy group that features PIT writers and performers, who are up-and-coming-and-unwell. With an emphasis on finding hilarity in the lives of the mundane, Yelling at Pigeons presents a revue of sketches, characters, and musical performances that explore the most bizarre and downright dangerous delights of the average Joe.

BREAKING NEWS: THE PIT announces the Peoples Sketch Revues’ TOPICAL TEAM! This team will present their comedic take on the hottest political and topical stories happening in the world today. Our Topical Team is directed by Makena Reynolds and will feature sketch comedy from: Reagan Allen Sebastian Martinez Sydney Kaehler Santos Aguilar Moureen Karim Lisa Naso   PEOPLES SKETCH REVUES is a new series featuring SKETCH HOUSE TEAMS built by our theater, for our theater. These teams showcase the best of the best by presenting all forms of sketch comedy including MUSICAL, POLITICAL/TOPICAL and ABSURD/GONZO! These teams are representation of all the Peoples Improv Theater strives to achieve in the NYC comedy community.

This is for funny people @NITE… take a seat and shut your trap (you should’ve seen the other guy...)

A mathematically-inclined playwright on the autism spectrum approaches his fortieth birthday in the wake of the COVID shutdown.

Leatherface Larry has had enough of Ted Danson. And Susie. And Jeff. And Leon. Someone has to save Cheryl, and maybe all of Texas. A musical of epic proportions, including numbers by spirit guides Marty Funkhouser and Richard Lewis.

Come see the material that did NOT get our performers a spot on SNL, JFL, or KGL! Okay, we made that last one up.

Ansa Edim's one woman storytelling show explores modern romance through the eyes of a fat Black woman boldly navigating a world of dating disasters, confusing societal expectations, and the cringey road to self-discovery.

Zany chaos ensues! We hope you join us for this wild ride of satire and foolery!

Theatresports™ is the fast-paced improv show where two teams of improvisers will compete against each other, taking your suggestions to perform hilarious scenes, songs, games and more!

The Sigmund Special is a sketch show centering some of Freud’s favorite things: therapy, sex, and humor as a coping mechanism! Written by a woman with varying levels of experience in all those areas!

Backdoor Barbecue is a critically acclaimed* NYC-based sketch comedy group that serves up high-energy and tightly-structured shows. Featuring musical performances, character bits, topical monologue joke segments, and more, Backdoor Barbecue cooks up a new sketch revue with some of the funniest folks in New York!

For people who want a Church-like community, without the serious religion stuff. Secular Church is a thoughtful mix of stand-up comedy, music, and improv inspired by our many religious upbringings and communities. Take an hour to reflect and laugh at our spirituality, traditions, how they influence in our day-to-day lives, and more.

If you love improv but want more than just laughs, you've come to the right place.

A sketch show including from people who are just figuring it out.

You’ve watched this show for seven years and finally and now it’s coming to an end. Dragons, meth, weddings, who knows what will happen. You suggest the title and we’ll show you how it ends.

Fight for democracy in the most dramatic election season yet!

It’s gonna get weeeeeeeird with the Peoples Sketch Revues’ ABSURD TEAM! This team will present their gonzo take on intrusive thoughts and the mundane of the absurdi–or…wait, flip it. Our Absurd Team is directed by Jason Tyus Smith and will feature sketch comedy from...   Sofia Pastena Brian Martin Marty Chandler Colleen Granberg Jordan Perry Patrick Walsh Katie Redden Spencer Giles Patrick Kohn   PEOPLES SKETCH REVUES is a new series featuring SKETCH HOUSE TEAMS built by our theater, for our theater. These teams showcase the best of the best by presenting all forms of sketch comedy including MUSICAL, POLITICAL/TOPICAL and ABSURD/GONZO! These teams are representation of all the Peoples Improv Theater strives to achieve in the NYC comedy community.

Hell's #666th Best Talkshow is back!

Come watch Queer performers get into the “Yas, and!” spirit as they spread the LGBTQIA+ agenda through improv comedy! It’ll be a gay ole time!

SAMs ask the audience about their towns and create their misfit spin on it!

A showcase of brand-new sketch comedy from a brand-new sketch comedy group! Fowl Play, founded by a group of odd ducks, produces comedy that's both playful and cutting, melding absurdist humor with sharp satire. There will be someone dressed as a giant razor blade.

A sketch show with a family name...

This Women's History Month, the PIT celebrates its talented female-identifying instructors and staff, along with jam hosts and PIT friends as special guests!

Brisk air, leaves falling, it’s always dark, it’s coming — cuffing season. And you won’t buy me a salad? What am I to you… Chopt Liver?

Nothing like a premier off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-Broadway musical presented by the Peoples Sketch Revues’ MUSICAL TEAM! This team presents a new musical sketch comedy show that's sure to keep your foot tapping. Our Musical Team is directed by Sunny Outlaw and will feature sketch comedy from:   Alyssa Alizor Susan Burns Dara Weinstein Mike Brian Melanie Ezster Dorian Sanchez Bibek Gurung Jenni Lawson JQ Hennessy Tom Preston Mark Melton Tommy Montgomery Victoria Nakian Duncan Orme-Doutre Tom Hughes   PEOPLES SKETCH REVUES is a new series featuring SKETCH HOUSE TEAMS built by our theater, for our theater. These teams showcase the best of the best by presenting all forms of sketch comedy including MUSICAL, POLITICAL/TOPICAL and ABSURD/GONZO! These teams are representation of all the Peoples Improv Theater strives to achieve in the NYC comedy community.

Join Kim & Yaro as they host a night of stand-up and improv inspired by the opposite sex.

Everybody hates NYC's DMV's. Long lines. Impatient customers. Indifferent employees. Except for that one Tuesday when five strangers, waiting an eternity to renew their licenses, are bitten - completely against their will - by the musical bug. These five strangers turn the drab DMV to a fab musical scene in this irreverent musical comedy.

Student Driver: Indie Road is The PIT's longest running indie improv show and is finally back a multi year hiatus caused by some serious "traffic" in the world.

Corn Fed Sketch, the corniest sketch show in the west. What happens when you when you put a bunch Midwesterners with big dreams on a stage??? They write a sketch show! You can see the Titanic, a masked killer, and big ole glasses of whole milk. And if you’re lucky maybe you’ll get to meet The Donner Party.

"GREAT GATSBY!" is a parody jukebox musical of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel featuring pop hits from the early 2000s. This un-faithful retelling is this year's (Third) Best Musical (Based on "The Great Gatsby").

An outrageous, off-the-wall sketch show written and performed by some of the hottest performers from Second City, UCB, BCC, and of course, THE PIT!!!!!!

Charlotte has succumbed to depression and must try various experiences in life to pull herself out. It's hilarious.

Improv on x1.5 speed.

What happens when a team meets for the first time hours before they take the stage? 6-8 highly skilled performers come together and forced to commit... for one night only to create a never-before seen narrative. Anything can happen in this evening of experimental theater, almost as chaotic as a shotgun wedding.

Frog Boyz Presents a night of stand up, animation, and sketch comedy by Sketch Team 6.

Choosing your culinary comedic experience from an eclectic, limited seasonal menu was a bold move by current service industry employees, Kate Jarecki and Analyse Capodiferro. But the ingredients at BITE are fresh and funny, with absolutely no preservatives. We aim to provide a variety of laughs for every diet.

A playlist of sketches. Each show in this series is inspired by a musical theme – the playlist could be any genre from punk and party anthems to 70s classics and Broadway musicals. Come hear what musically inspired sketches College Radio has composed!

There will be no promises that you will like the show because comedy is ultimately subjective, much like one's preference of ice cream flavor.